Hi, when I make plots with the Basemap package I seem to be getting a large amount of white space at the top and bottom of the plot, even if I use the option bbox_inches='tight'. Does anyone know how I can stop this happening?
Example image... http://old.nabble.com/file/p28824528/diffmap_JULES_DJF_snowFrac.GSWP2_vs_SSMI.jpg What I am currently doing... def makeMap(image, ofname, imageMin, imageMax, ticks): """ dump out the array as a nice map... """ fig = plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6)) m = Basemap(projection='cyl', llcrnrlon=-179.5, llcrnrlat=-60.0, \ urcrnrlon=179.5, urcrnrlat=89.5, resolution='c') # add an axes, leaving room for colorbar on the right. ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.7, 0.7]) m.ax = ax colourmap = plt.cm.RdYlBu colourmap.set_bad('w', 1.0) im = m.imshow(image, colourmap, colors.Normalize(vmin=imageMin, vmax=imageMax, clip=False),\ interpolation='nearest') pos = ax.get_position() l, b, w, h = pos.bounds cax = plt.axes([l + w + 0.045, b, 0.05, h]) norm = colors.BoundaryNorm(ticks, colourmap.N) cbar = mpl.colorbar.ColorbarBase(cax, cmap=colourmap, norm=norm, ticks=ticks) #cbar = plt.colorbar(im, cax=cax) # xlabel and ylabel were overwriting the tick labels so i need to move them # transAxes set the position from the bottom left of the axes (1,1 would be the top right) ax.text(0.5, -0.15, 'Longitude', transform=ax.transAxes, ha='center', va='center') ax.text(-0.1, 0.5, 'Latitude', transform=ax.transAxes, ha= 'center', va='center', rotation='vertical') #ax.set_title("Sign.Different: GSPW2 - Princeton") m.drawcoastlines(linewidth=0.2, color='k') m.drawcountries(linewidth=0.1, color='k') #m.drawrivers() m.drawparallels(np.array([-90.0, -60.0, -30.0, 0.0, 30.0, 60.0, 90.0]), labels=[1,0,0,1],\ fontsize=10, rotation=20) m.drawmeridians(np.array([-180.0, -120.0, -60.0, 0.0, 60.0, 120.0, 180.0]), labels=[0,0,0,1], \ fontsize=10, rotation=20) fig.savefig(ofname + '.png', dpi=300, bbox_inches='tight') # for LaTeX doc... fig.savefig(os.path.join("/users/eow/mgdk/doc/snowy_notes/figures/", (ofname + ".eps")), dpi=300,\ bbox_inches='tight') Many thanks, Martin -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Removing-white-space-surrounding-plots-tp28824528p28824528.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
